by Web Editor | Jul 20, 2012 | News, News/PR
Dry conditions are dangerous in this season of devastating wildfires. Twenty-one large fires are burning across the West. None are as bad as the recent Waldo Canyon fire in Colorado, which left two people dead and burned 346 homes. Fires this destructive, or so fierce...
by Web Editor | Jul 18, 2012 | News, News/PR
President Barack Obama will make federal health insurance available to about 8,000 temporary wildland firefighters, a White House official said recently. Despite the grueling and dangerous work they do, the 8,000 firefighters aren’t covered by federal health...
by Web Editor | Jul 16, 2012 | News, News/PR
The blistering summer and ongoing drought conditions have the prompted the U.S. Agriculture Department to declare a federal disaster area in more than 1,000 counties covering 26 states. That’s almost one-third of all the counties in the United States, making it...
by Web Editor | Jul 13, 2012 | News, News/PR
The World Resources Institute (WRI) recently announced the launch of the Forest Legality Risk Information Tool, an open-access global information website designed to assist purchasers of forest products in securing fiber from legal sources. The risk tool, a project of...
by Web Editor | Jul 11, 2012 | News, News/PR
Oregon’s annual timber harvest jumped 13% in 2011, reaching 3.65 billion board feet. Large private forest owners, taking advantage of a continued hot export market to China and elsewhere, accounted for two-thirds of the harvest despite having only 19% of the...
by Web Editor | Jul 9, 2012 | News, News/PR
NASA and the U.S. Forest Service signed a Space Act Agreement recently that unites the two agencies in raising awareness about the importance of fire prevention and fire safety. This partnership will highlight areas of common interest in wildfires, forest and plant...
